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The girl has told the jury the physical contact started with hugging and kissing when she was ten but progressed to a variety of sex activity including intercourse when she was 11 and continued until she was 13.

At the time he was living in Newton Abbot. Her mother was sometimes away and often failed to exercise any normal parental control.

Dart, aged 30, of Hampton Street, Plymouth, denies five counts of statutory child rape, five of sexual assault, and two of sexual activity with a child.

Dart told the jury he had very little memory of his time in Newton Abbot because he spent most of his days drinking and smoking cannabis in his attic room.

He denied having a PlayStation, computer, or any other games console at the time and denied grooming the girl.

He said a tattoo on his left forearm had nothing to do with the girl. He said: "I did not have her name tattooed on my arm. It was another girlfriend with the same name who was 19.

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"I met her in pubs and clubs and got it done as a surprise for her when I was drunk."

He said two sets of Facebook conversations in which he discussed his relationship with the girl had nothing to do with him. He said: "I believe they are fake profiles. I know nothing about them. The messages are not from me."

Sean Brunton, prosecuting, asked Dart whether he had 'tried his luck' with the girl, invited her into bed and started to touch her.

He replied: "No, I did not. I believe she has said all this for compensation."